After two decades / We’re a sorry, suffering lot / Your temper and your rage— / A true despot! / But we found a way to keep the peace / (Still…

Do you know how whored I feel right now? / Frankly I didn’t know the word “whored" could be used in that way / So it threw me off— / Not that I had a…

By now haven’t we all had / The macchiato conversation? / You know when you try to order one / At an authentic coffee shop— / Not a Peet’s or a…

I don’t like my cat / He sits in my favorite chair / And watches me / He yells at me to get me to play with him / But then he won’t play with me /…

I blink— / Or at least that’s what I thought I did / But when I open my eyes / I realize my car has traveled— / Into a different lane / My heart…

I stand a bit hunched over behind my car— / A secondhand 2013 navy blue Tesla Model S / In an empty parking lot / Between two nondescript warehouses…

Can I touch your hair? / She asks me / A strange question indeed / We’re standing next to one another / At Ocean Beach / Atop the O'Shaughnessy…

Mill Valley looks like the kind of town / You’d expect to see in a model railroad set / Minus the trains— / Tracks torn up / After a massive fire /…

They don’t tell you in San Francisco / That East Coast nights don’t cool down in the summer / Not in Augusta / But not in Brooklyn either / I…

Anyone who traveled with Mitch Ludwig / Knew about the shrapnel in his ass / It was from Vietnam / A Marine / Two tours / And a Purple Heart / A man…

Content warning: This email contains details regarding abuse, violence, and sexual assault. / Monday night, I hopped on IG live to talk about what…

I'm not hiding the fact that George Gascón tried to ruin my life, it's no secret, I wrote a book about it, and I ran political attack ads against him…

As of yesterday, in the race to pick Los Angeles’s next District Attorney, it became mathematically impossible for Jackie Lacey to avoid a runoff…

So we kinda had the talk / Me and my newish girlfriend / We’d been friends for years / But only lovers for a few months / It felt silly / We were…

She told me it was over / Not even twelve hours ago / So I’m cleaning my apartment / Like a man on a mission / Because maybe it makes me feel better…

Adorable Tomasina, available for adoption at the SFSPCA. / America, lend me your ear. / This has got to stop. We've fallen prey to the greatest con…

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